Re: using tar

mick crane [2020-06-15T19:01:32+01] wrote: > I think my memory has packed up. Mine too, and I like GNU's long-option style because I remember them easily. They are also kind of self-documenting code in shell scripts. tar --create --verbose --xz --file archive.tar.xz directory/to_archive Bas

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 9:43 PM Gary Aitken wrote: > On 6/15/20 3:43 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 4:40 PM Gary Aitken > > wrote: > ... > > $ dpkg --simulate --remove postfix dpkg: could not open log > > '/var/log/dpkg.log': Permission

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

On 6/15/20 3:37 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Aitken wrote: ... When originally built, the system had a screwed-up postfix installation; in attempting to solve this problem, I wanted to uninstall postfix and reinstall it. However, I don't think I should do that because the postfix installation ha

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

On 6/15/20 3:43 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 4:40 PM Gary Aitken mailto:deb...@dreamchaser.org>> wrote: ... $ dpkg --simulate --remove postfix dpkg: could not open log '/var/log/dpkg.log': Permission denied ... Lots of the apt and dpkg functions require Root or Sudo. Noti

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On 16/6/20 6:19 am, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:05:32PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 15 iun 20, 12:47:59, Gary L. Roach wrote: I assume that with respect to the original message that it should be obvious that the root user problem stems from the underlying Debian

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 4:40 PM Gary Aitken wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm attempting to manage a google-compute system running debian/ubuntu; > I normally run a freebsd system so I'm out of my element here and web > searches haven't helped: > > 81~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 11 14:56:45 UTC 2020 x86_64 x

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

Gary Aitken wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm attempting to manage a google-compute system running debian/ubuntu; > I normally run a freebsd system so I'm out of my element here and web > searches haven't helped: > > When originally built, the system had a screwed-up postfix installation; > in attempting

libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

Hi all, I'm attempting to manage a google-compute system running debian/ubuntu; I normally run a freebsd system so I'm out of my element here and web searches haven't helped: 81~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 11 14:56:45 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux When originally built, the system had

Re: vlc: unable to set resolution at command line

On 6/15/20 7:27 PM, mick crane wrote: I don't know much about VLC, I'd probably change the resolution with FFmpeg and watch that. mick I think he wants, when he opens the "oh" window, to have a constant/fixed width and length. Not to change the width and length or quality of the video.

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:05:32PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 15 iun 20, 12:47:59, Gary L. Roach wrote: > > > > I assume that with respect to the original message that it should be obvious > > that the root user problem stems from the underlying Debian OS. Someone in > > the Debian hier

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On Lu, 15 iun 20, 12:47:59, Gary L. Roach wrote: > > I assume that with respect to the original message that it should be obvious > that the root user problem stems from the underlying Debian OS. Someone in > the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too much of a security > risk. So the

Re: using tar

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 07:30:31PM +0100, mick crane wrote: yes I see that now but without hyphen "f" can be anywhere Yes and no: any of the keys can be in any location, but their arguments must follow the key list in the order that the keys appear. For example: tar cbf 20 foo.tar /dev/null

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On 6/14/20 1:22 PM, Default User wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:12 AM Marco Möller wrote: On 09.06.20 23:55, Default User wrote: (...) Now, a final note. When I did my main install, it was a day or two before the release of Buster 10.0. I immediately upgraded to Unstable. But it is still

Re: using tar

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 02:34:24PM -0500, David Wright wrote: It appears you've also forgotten about man pages as well as google. The man page explains the difference between hyphenated and unhyphenated forms, and helpfully even gives a single example written in both forms: tar cfv a.tar /

Re: using tar

On Mon 15 Jun 2020 at 19:30:31 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > On 2020-06-15 19:17, Thomas Pircher wrote: > > mick crane wrote: > > > I thought you put the options after a hyphen with tar ? > > > > Tar accepts 3 styles of options. The style with a single dash is called > > the 'UNIX' or 'short-option

Re: using tar

On 2020-06-15 19:17, Thomas Pircher wrote: mick crane wrote: I thought you put the options after a hyphen with tar ? Tar accepts 3 styles of options. The style with a single dash is called the 'UNIX' or 'short-option' style in the man page. "tar -cfvz archive_file.tgz ./directory_to_archive"

Re: using tar

On Mon 15 Jun 2020 at 19:24:00 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2020-06-15 19:07, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 15 Jun 2020 at 19:01:32 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > > > I think my memory has packed up. > > > > So has your ability to use a search engine. Try > > > > tar options hyphen > > Ok I see w

Re: using tar

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 07:01:32PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > I think my memory has packed up. > I thought you put the options after a hyphen with tar ? > "tar -cfvz archive_file.tgz ./directory_to_archive" > doesn't work. > "tar cfvz archive_file.tgz ./directory_to_archive" > works Your fundament

Re: using tar

On 2020-06-15 19:07, Brian wrote: On Mon 15 Jun 2020 at 19:01:32 +0100, mick crane wrote: I think my memory has packed up. So has your ability to use a search engine. Try tar options hyphen Ok I see what the confusion was "f" has to be the last of the options if using hyphen mick -- K

Re: using tar

mick crane wrote: > I thought you put the options after a hyphen with tar ? Tar accepts 3 styles of options. The style with a single dash is called the 'UNIX' or 'short-option' style in the man page. > "tar -cfvz archive_file.tgz ./directory_to_archive" > doesn't work. The `-f` option requires a

Re: using tar

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 13:02 mick crane wrote: > I think my memory has packed up. > I thought you put the options after a hyphen with tar ? > "tar -cfvz archive_file.tgz ./directory_to_archive" You do for modern use, but the 'f' has to be the last arg in that incantation. -Tom

Re: using tar

On Mon 15 Jun 2020 at 19:01:32 +0100, mick crane wrote: > I think my memory has packed up. So has your ability to use a search engine. Try tar options hyphen -- Brian.

using tar

I think my memory has packed up. I thought you put the options after a hyphen with tar ? "tar -cfvz archive_file.tgz ./directory_to_archive" doesn't work. "tar cfvz archive_file.tgz ./directory_to_archive" works mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: vlc: unable to set resolution at command line

On 2020-06-15 16:44, Franco Martelli wrote: Hi everybody, I'm on Debian Buster 10.4 vlc version: "VLC media player 3.0.10 Vetinari". I want to run vlc at command line setting the resolution of 720x576 but the vlc's window start at the resolution of the mp4 file. Under Preference->Interfaces->Mai

vlc: unable to set resolution at command line

Hi everybody, I'm on Debian Buster 10.4 vlc version: "VLC media player 3.0.10 Vetinari". I want to run vlc at command line setting the resolution of 720x576 but the vlc's window start at the resolution of the mp4 file. Under Preference->Interfaces->Main Interfaces->Qt I've disabled: "Resize interf

Re: Need commands

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 08:03:05AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 03:48:19PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > OK. My hunch [...] > Bear in mind that the OP was running Kali, not Debian. I don't know off > hand whether Kali makes changes to their bash-completion package, b

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

Hi, 13 juin 2020 à 21:14 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: > You're looking at the wrong header. It's X-Spam-Status and > X-Amavis-Spam-Status you should worry about. Authetication-Results is > set by your MTA receiving your own mail from the list. > > But yes, they are both OK for this and your previ

Re: Need commands

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 03:48:19PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > OK. My hunch is that they have something to do with bash autocompletion. > Since they are functions, not files, it's hard to say which package > they come from (with on-board means, that is). > > But there are way more powerful of

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 10:13:11AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 13 Jun 2020 at 16:05:17 (+0200), l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > However, this extra ">" should have been deleted upon viewing the email, no? > > How would the viewer's email client know whether the > in > >From had been added by som

Re: LXC container update fail

> Try updating and/or installing libgnutls30 and ca-certificates from packages installed. On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 9:58 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 14 iun 20, 11:15:55, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > > > Does internet access work properly from the container? > > yes. domain name resolution, Ping

Re: Installing Debian In Intel Optane System

Hello, disclaimer: I do not have Optane hardware, all the following is supposition you will probably be interested in reading some of the links mentioned here: https://nvdimm.wiki.kernel.org/start I would imagine that you could use the pmem memmap kernel parameter to launch the Debian install

Re: Installing Debian In Intel Optane System

On 2020-06-14 23:00, Athul Neelamparambil wrote: Hi , I use an Acer Aspire 3 laptop with preinstalled Windows. I tried to install Debian in it but the HDD was not detected and when I looked it up, I found out that my SATA was set to "Optane Without RAID" and to install Debian, I have to set i